[ubuntu-za] MySQL

[Jason Norwood-Young]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 19:54 +0200, Bill Cairns wrote:
> The latest set of system updates included some for MySQL. Do I need to
> have MySQL installed for system reasons? Can I un-install it safely?
> (Did I install it myself by mistake perhaps?)
> 
> (Just that I might be running out of hard disk space on this old 20 Gig
> clunker).
> 

MySql isn't needed for your base system. It's possible that something else you installed relies on MySql. If you try to uninstall it Synaptic should tell you if there are any dependencies.

J